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It is an interesting argument that. The "Old Guard" did indeed manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory several times. Not sure if the "New Guard" will even be able to get in a position to do that however.

You are an absolute parody.

Intentionally provocative here but there's a view that Gestede has turfed this culture out. I've seen both Brittain and a lesser extent Hyam down tools at criticism over poor performances.

I wish him well and all that but I couldn't sit through an Espanol game just to see how he's going on. Kudos to you guys for sticking it out.

Hopefully

A success I would have thought. Just out of League one and just survived last year. Meanwhile, it would seem that many here think that mid to low table is acceptable for us given we have been in this league for ages. Embarassaing indeed.

Yep, Waggott/Mowbray/Venus were all probably very happy working together as well.

I think Wahlstedt and Ennis can be seen as flops, but the rest certainly not. And even then, we made no financial loss on either. Hirst and Telalovic didn't do it for us, but they've gone on to bigger and better things; the potential was clearly there. Szmodics, Tronstad and Hyam don't need explaining - all 3 of them have won our POTY trophy since being here. And, as you say, O'Riordan is showing a lot of potential out on loan, so we can't make a real judgement either way on him right now. You'd be reaching (at best) if you were trying to make out that Broughton's transfer record was more shit than good.

https://www.sportscasting.com/uk/news/championship-sack-race-odds-2025-2026/ VI 2nd favorites for the sack 🤔

Ben Sheaf off to Wrexham for £6.5M

Yeah you could tell on his face he knew he'd dropped a bollock. Very poor game and they should be behind.

It just won't be the same without some untried and untested teenagers arriving in the latter stages of deadline day 😉 Although that being said, we have already stocked up on the untried & untested, we just own them this time Suspect we may still see a Prem loan or 2, likely teenagers to plug gaps in goal & central midfield if Pears leaves (allowing Michalski to get a loan) and/or if Baradji is not going to be fit in the near future

Happy to be picking up a wage with no pressure at all

True to some extent but if they hadn’t pulled the plug on deadline day transfers and then slashed the budget, we would have made it, even with Broughton in role.

It's actually a tragedy. If we'd appointed an actual proper DOF to work alongside the excellent JDT instead of a bullshitting over promoted Academy Head, we'd probably have had enough to get us over the line. Im struggling to see when that chance will ever come around again now tbh.

Watching too. How the hell did he get away without a card for that tackle. Launched himself full weight onto the blokes ankle. Got away with one there. He's struggled to see much of the ball this first half hour.

We should do all we can to get Alan Browne in. He would be the difference between a good and a bad season. Just the type of player we need to come in.

Completely irrelevant. The three of them never even scored a goal here between them. That is some unwanted record which surely will never ever be surpassed ( if that's the right word)

For us it’s “significant investment”

Thanks for proving my point. I was only trying to save you some time ranting about them for the 1000th time, but I suspect you actually enjoy it so fair enough 🙂

Rovers didn't get a tune out of Hirst - but Ipswich clearly did. O'Riordan is excelling on loan at Donny. Apparently Telalovic has moved on for a profit. Only Ennis has flopped.

Brittain was 1 million hardly decent money at this level Szmodic cost more than him.

Bullshit Broughton was far worse as a DOF than Teflon Tronstad is as a footballer tbf. Albeit Id imagine the latter will escape completely immune from any criticism should we go down this season. Someone mentioned the other night about whether Mowbray tried to falsely claim all the credit for Wharton's development on that interview with Big Sam. He'd be too late for that in any event - Broughton already did it.

Why do you have to? You can increase the budget if you want. I can guarantee Derby have significantly increased their wage bill this summer judging by their recruitment and desire to progress as a club. Wrexham another. Birmingham. Charlton. All budgets that will have shot up. We didn't even need to increase or break our wage bill. Could have simply maintained what we had but that would have required the owners to maintain their financial input. They clearly don't want to. Their choice, we have to live with the consequences of those choices. Constantly looking for cuts and reductions and hiding behind 'wage structure' is just a race to the bottom.

Gudjohnson in, Harry Leonard out is it a done deal?